Fabrizio Colonna

Fabrizio Colonna (c. 1450-18 March 1520) was the Grand Constable of Naples and Count of Tagliacozzo. A condotierro (mercenary general), Colonna he played a notable part in the victory of the Spanish Empire in the 1503 Battle of Cerignola. Colonna was the speaker of Niccolo Machiavelli's work The Art of War, agreeing that ancient strategy should be used in the warfare that went on during his life in the Italian Wars.

Biography
Colonna was the cousin of fellow mercenary Prospero Colonna, and he was made the Grand Constable of Naples and Count of Tagliacozzo, having married the daughter of the noble Federico da Montefeltro of Urbino. Colonna was captured alongside his cousin in 1500 by Papal States general Cesare Borgia, and as they were being escorted from one Roman prison to another, they were both rescued by Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who fought off a battalion of Papal States troops alongside the cousins. Free, Fabrizio commanded the army of Pope Julius II and the Holy League during the War of the League of Cambrai (1508-1515) during the Italian Wars. He played a notable part in commanding Spain's army in the 1503 Battle of Cerignola, and he died in 1520.